"Lucas, Brian (AZ76)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Using the Date/Time to seconds with an input of 1 Jan 1970 gets 2082870000. >This is only .7% larger then the simple calculation.
Watch out!!! Your number is slightly off because you didn't adjust for time zone offset. The real value consideriing that the "seconds since" is (in LabVIEW always and in most ANSI C implemenations usually as well) in reference to UTC would be 2082844800. Just enter 0 into a numeric control set to display Time & Date and you will see that the control will display something else than 00:00:00 01/01/1904 (unless you live in the UK or any place on the same meridian ;-) This is because Time & Date in LabVIEW is always in local time, which is usually what you want anyway, while the seconds since is always in UTC. Rolf Kalbermatter CIT Engineering Nederland BV tel: +31 (070) 415 9190 Treubstraat 7H fax: +31 (070) 415 9191 2288 EG Rijswijk http://www.citengineering.com Netherlands mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
